Sunday, August 25, 2019

Some Words About Wisdom From Gulliver's Quill Daddy

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Wisdom is a fox
who after long hunting
will at last cost you
the pain of digging out

Wisdom is a hen
whose cackling we must value
and consider because it is attended
with an egg
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JONATHON SWIFT
Tale of a Tub

Italics in quoted text
were used by Swifty
a/k/a
The Godfather of Satire
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